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Booked by Steve Valentine (DVD)
The ULTIMATE book test where you not only tell them the WORD they are thinking of, YOU PREDICT IT! ANYWHERE, ANYTIME and with ANY BOOK.NOW SHIPPING. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

"Why does Steve Valentine have to be so good at EVERYTHING?!? He's renewed the idea of the book test, providing a Valentinian perspective on a classic effect. His book test has become the highlight of my performances in Houdini Seance Room at the Magic Castle. I couldn't imagine a performance without it." - Rob Zabrecky

"I saw this done by Steve, 15 or more years ago and I remembered it to this day. I'm shelving my other book tests! The wait has been long and I applaud Steve for finally opening his vault to release this. BOOKED is a winner!" - Joe Monti

"I've been running the lectures at the Magic Castle for over 30 years. This is by far the greatest book test I've ever seen, and I've seen them all." - Lee Delano, Magic Castle

"A real 'worker' from someone who has obviously performed this gem for years in his own shows. Highly, highly recommended." - Chipper Lowell

Have you ever performed a gaffed book test and had someone yell 'DO IT WITH MY BOOK!'?

Well now you can, with Steve Valentine's BOOKED!

On this DVD Steve shares his closely guarded secrets, honed through thousands of real world performances. You not only tell them the WORD they are thinking of, YOU PREDICT IT! ANYWHERE, ANYTIME and with ANY BOOK.

As a Bonus Steve reveals his extreme variations on the 'Pegasus Page' plot. Including the ultimate version where a freely chosen and SIGNED page is found RIPPED from a book and stuck to the OUTSIDE of a window. And the best part, you can give them the BOOK and PAGE to keep as a souvenir.

It doesn't get any better than this. THESE ARE FORMIDABLE, 100% COMMERCIAL MIRACLES.

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on February 19th, 2013

Here's what I love about this book test.

1) You can genuinely use pretty much any book they
give you. Walk into any bookstore, library or living room and let them give you a book. So the book
is fully examinable. You could even do it with foreign language books if you wanted to.

2)
They can genuinely choose any page they want.

3) You can predict what word they will pick
in any way you'd like (e.g. have it written on the ball of paper tossed around by the audience to
choose them).

4) They'll never be able to accuse you of peaking at the word. They take the
book away the second it's closed.

5) If you want to, you can have it be that they pick one
word and then either change their mind or a second spectator picks a totally different word from the
same book.

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on February 17th, 2013

This is absolute genius and I will use this over and over again. You can make everything you need in
10 minutes and it's fun. You can do a double prediction on stage...one person selects a book, one
looks at a word, another looks at the page number and the last opens the prediction envelope and
reveals you're totally correct.

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on February 17th, 2013

Wow! For simplicity, flexibility and impact, "Booked" will be hard to beat. I've performed at least
a dozen different book/magazine tests over the years and I must admit this is the BEST in real-world
situations. Steve does a terrific job of showing how to make gaffs for ANY situation (including
being given a book in another language!) and his incredible versions of the "pegasus page" theme are
breathtaking. My favorite is a an "extreme" handling where the page is selected and signed - moments
later to be seen as MISSING (torn out) from the book and the SIGNED page revealed in a wallet, under
a glass, wherever you choose. Thank you Steve for sharing all your thinking with the magic/mentalism
community. The book test/pegasus page routine will most likely become the finale to my parlor act.
Best money I've spent on a book test in a LONG time.

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on February 17th, 2013

This is absolutely a "brilliant" trick. So glad he gave up his secret and so glad I bought it. It
is really a GREAT effect...............it seems impossible....... it really blows people away.
Thanks for making it available.

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on February 16th, 2013

I was hesitant to purchase "Booked" at first. Some were saying it was nothing new. However, I
found "Booked" to be a valuable mentalism tool with an ingenious gimmick. Steve Valentine does a
very thorough job of going through the creation of the gimmick and its variations. He gives
complete explanations of the various routines as well as valuable advice on how to handle things
that could happen during a performance. You can tell he has completely "worked" each of his
"Booked" routines for years and years. The more I watched the DVD, the more I realized this was an
amazing book test that would make audiences jaws drop to the floor. "Booked" is definitely a book
test that I will use.

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on February 20th, 2013

I love this concept and will often use it.

However I can't say this is the best book test.
It depends on your performing style. The thing that I don't want to do when I do book test is
looking at the book even though I don't try to see the word but people may think you are trying to
glimpse it. When you use Booked you need to look at the book about 1 or 2 seconds. Of course you
don't glimpse the page but you need to do it. You can cover this as you move around the stage or any
kind of misdirection you can use to distract people's focus little bit. But generally distracting
people's attention is not a good thing in mentalism. Because the moment when people see the freely
selected page is the most important part of the performance in book test. You want to be seen as
clean as possible at that moment. In my opinion it is not that clean in that moment as other book
tests are.

Therefore to maximize this concept you need to add more effects just like the
demo shows. This concept can make prediction and teleportation effects also. So, you reveal the word
they chose and you show prediction paper that is written same word and the selected page is
magically travelled and stuck on outside of a window or anywhere you wanted. The window thing is the
killer. I just tried it yesterday and the reaction was so good.

It has 3 different effects
in one performance so it may confuse people's mind and it feels more like magic or trick than pure
mentalism. However I urge you to try this because you can do this with a BORROWED book. Not only
book test, I've never seen any tricks or mental effects with a borrowed book this much good.

If you want to be seen as real mentalist with this I don't recommend this. There is Tru
Test on Penguin. That is the thing you may want to try it if you don't have it.

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on February 24th, 2013

Ok, I'm not going to take on the whole mentalist v magician or mentalism v mental magic thing. I
will say, Booked is a great DVD. The basic routine(s) are killer and Steve has included so many
different variations. I was hesitant to buy this at first because I already have a great book test
and while Booked will not replace it, I will use Booked in both my professional gigs and in social
settings. I know one trick DVDs take a lot of crap but this is more than just one trick. Highly
recommended!

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on February 25th, 2013

I LOVE book tests!! This is an ingenious concept with lots of information and ideas to make some
amazing, seemingly impossible things. Combining this method with other book tests can possibly start
a cult of followers! Just kidding. But not really. It's that good.